Castro, Chavez Attending Brazilian Inauguration - "Jan. 1 is no longer a Cuban monopoly"

yahoo.com ^ | January 1, 2003 | ALAN CLENDENNING, AP

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

Fidel Castro - Cuba

9/11: Chavez financed Al Qaeda, details of $1M donation emerge***The day after the attack, September 12, Chavez supporters publicly burned the Stars and Stripes in the main square of Caracas in an outburst of gleeful satisfaction over the attacks. The organizer of the Plaza Bolivar protest, Lina Ron (a.k.a. "Rosa", born 9/23/59 in Anaco, Anzoátegui state), received public praise from Chavez. Unknown to the press, Lina Ninette Ron Pereira had been on the payroll of Caracas governor Hernan Gruber Odreman, ever since Chavez appointed him head of the Distrito Federal in 1999. She is still employed by Chavez, today working for Caracas borough mayor Freddy Bernal of Chavez's MVR party. There, she is in charge of a "cultural center" which mobilizes masses for pro-Chavez demonstrations and is active in breaking up opposition events.

$1M for Al Qaeda to fight against the United States

But Chavez did not stop at merely praising the attacks and having his support groups burn the American flag. He wanted to do more. He wanted to help Al Qaeda and the Taliban in their coming war against the United States. Juan Diaz Castillo from Venezuela's Air Force, was given that job. The private pilot of Hugo Chavez, Major Diaz Castillo has since defected and has started to talk. As the trusted insider who flew the president's Airbus, he was an eye-witness to secret meetings between Chavez and some of the top dictators in the world. He was also in charge of organizing one million dollars worth of assistance from Chavez to Al Qaeda.

" - Chavez trusted me completely. So right after 9/11, when he decided to help Al Qaeda, he turned to Jorge Oropeza and to me. Jorge was my boss in the presidential air support unit, but he is just a political appointee, so I did all the actual work." The work, as ordered by Chavez, was to help Al Qaeda but to make it look like he was helping the Taliban, using humanitarian grounds as the excuse.***

Robson Messias, 33, reads a book about Fidel Castro in front of the Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil on Saturday Dec. 28, 2002. Messias made it part way to Brasilia in a truck hauling lumber from the eastern Amazon state of Para. But he had to wait five days to get a ride for the last 800 kilometers (500 miles) of the trip and arrived broke to witness the Jan. 1 inauguration of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the working class hero who rose to become the first leftist ever elected president of Brazil. About 1,000 buses full of people from all corners of Latin America's largest country are expected to arrive in Brasilia for the inaugural festivities, which are being billed as a party for the people.(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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Michael Kelly: 2003 Through the Looking Glass ***Carter Returns Nobel Peace Prize 'Too, Too Ridiculous,' Ex-Prez Says PLAINS, Ga., March 17 -- In a move that stunned veteran narcissistic personality disorder observers, a smiling Jimmy Carter today announced that he had decided to return the coveted Peace Prize awarded to him last year by the Nobel Committee.

"I may be the most vainglorious, self-regarding, preachifying old coot since Henry Ward Beecher, but even I know when a joke has gone too far," said Carter. "Let's consider my contributions to world peace. In 1991, as the United States was on the very verge of war, I secretly lobbied the presidents of the United Nations Security Council nations, and also the heads of the Arab nations, to try to persuade them to scuttle my own country's efforts to build a coalition and defeat Iraq. Imagine if I had succeeded -- why, we now know Iraq was within months of building its first nuclear weapon when the war began!

"Then, I butted into Clinton's disaster in Somalia, to put together the surrender to that charmer Mohamed Farah Aideed after his boys killed 18 of our soldiers and dragged their beaten bodies through the streets. And we now know that the spectacle of the Great Satan knuckling under to a guy whose entire army consisted of 10 second-hand Jeeps directly encouraged Osama bin Laden to believe that America was ripe for capitulation on a much greater scale -- if you killed enough Americans.

"And the clincher -- Korea. Yep, I'm the boy who freelanced the 1994 agreement with the head-case of that horror show to stop his nuclear bomb program, in exchange for a whole bunch of aid from us. When reporters asked me then if it was really reasonable to expect Kim Il Sung to keep his word, given that he never had before, I said: 'This is something that's not for me to judge.' Well, of course, neither that nut-job nor his nut-job son honored the deal for one second. So now, eight years later, another American president has inherited another fine mess I got us in. "Please, take it back, and stop me before I negotiate again."***

[The Obstinate Insomniac]

Good morning and Happy New Year

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Good morning OI. A very happy new year to you.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The people of Venezuela are using every avenue (and blocking a few) to oust Castro's protégé, Hugo Chavez.

A boat loaded with coal, the Irene E.M., sits idle for two days blocking the entrance of Maracaibo Lake and making oil tankers unable to come and go from oil refineries located along the lake's banks in western Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2002. A tug boat that was to guide the coal boat through the channel unexpectedly stopped laboring. On day 30 of the nationwide strike, Venezuela's oil industry remains mostly paralyzed with few signs that government claims of an increase in production, export and refining operations is actually taking place, industry sources say. (AP Photo/Ana Maria Otero)

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Happy New Year Cincinatus'!!!

An excellent post. What a lot of Americans are failing to realize is that communism has a large attraction to the citizens of Latin America now, after the banks have raped Brazil and Argentina. This region could tie our attention down almost immediately after and if we calm things down in Iran and Iraq. Especially if Brazil develops the Latin A-bomb as they have threatened to in the past.

[lavaroise]

chavez and Castro are fo course obvious dictators and bloodthirsty international criminals. As for Lula, he is another sanctuarless boot with his own common set of final solution

[madfly]

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[Paulus Invictus]

With Cuba and Venezuela now in commie hands, Brazil will now follow their lead and it's goodbye (adeus!) to Brazil and Latin America.

Is the Admin even worried? I see nothing being done to counter this threat. Hells bells-- they haven't even addressed coherent ways to counter the huge invasion of illegals from Mexico! They seem to be asleep at the switch in DC, or am I wrong?

Bueno, por si acaso, seria mejor estudiar algo de espanol y adoptar el socialismo y unirnos con el partido de los RATones?

[Sparta]

Good morning. It appears we have another nominee for the Allende solution.

[Tailgunner Joe]

A New Axis of Evil?

[Victoria Delsoul]

It looks that way.

[MattinNJ]

Sounds like a great place to have a few daisy cutters drop by to crash the party.

[goldilucky]

When I think about it, Venezuela and Russia are both suffering politically and economically. What better opportunity than to have these two clowns Chavez and Castro to save the day.

Castro has never denounced commmunism and still aids and abets terrorists nations. Chavez might as well roll out the red carpet treatment for Al Quada forces just as Castro might as well be in cohorts with Iraq and Russia to plan attacks on the U.S.

[Sparta]

Here's a little something to cheer you up. Che after the Bolivians whacked him. Happy New Year.

[PhilDragoo]

Per Terry Reed, Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA, SPI/Shapolsky, 1994, Felix Rodriguez/Maximo Gomez cut off Che Guevara's hands for identification, and was described [p. 187] as the "man whose career was built around the murder of Che Guevara."

Gomez/Rodriguez is shown in the photo section with G.H.W. Bush.

Otto Reich would help matters. Chris Dodd's vaginitis may keep her from opposing Reich this month:

Monday, Nov. 25, 2002

Otto Reich Loses State Department Post

Otto Reich, the anti-communist State department official and pet target of congressional Democrats and other leftists, has lost his temporary post as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

Under the rules governing recess appointments, Reich’s term ran out with the close of Congress.

The failure to re-appoint Reich is a major disappointment to conservatives, who have worried the Bush administration has paid little attention to growing problems in Latin America.

''In light of this, the secretary of state asked Ambassador Reich to be his special envoy to the Western Hemisphere. In that capacity, he will report to the secretary and continue to advance U.S. interests throughout the region,'' announced Robert Zimmerman, a department spokesman.

Reich, described by the Miami Herald as "a lightning rod for his conservative views" and by National Review as "a key resource in fighting hemispheric terrorism," received the temporary job in January when he was unable to win a Senate confirmation after the Democrat-controlled chamber blocked a hearing on his nomination. Left-wing Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., led the opposition, calling Reich an ideologue unfit for the job.

Reich, however, had the support of Secretary of State Colin Powell at the time. Powell told senators then, "I need Otto Reich in place."

Unmoved, Dodd snapped: "That nomination's not going anywhere. That's the end of it."

President Bush then gave him a recess appointment, which did not require Senate approval.

The drumbeat of criticism from Democrats and other leftists increased in April when Reich allegedly appeared to back the short-lived coup that ousted Castro crony Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s far-left president, who has also embraced Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

According to the Herald, neither the White House nor the State Department could say whether the administration would renominate Reich to be assistant secretary of state once a new session of Congress convenes in January. Reich's friends and supporters say they have received private assurances he would be reappointed, and Republicans now control the Senate.

Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a Miami Republican, affirmed this and said he had been told that the White House would give a strong push to Reich. ``They are behind him. They support us on this,'' he told the Herald.

Reich, a no-nonsense Cuban-born diplomat, raised liberal hackles in late September when he criticized Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura for going to an agricultural trade show in Havana, and publicly warned him not to engage in ''sexual tourism'' while in Cuba.

The Herald reports that remarks of that nature drove a wedge between Reich and Powell, who is reported to prefer having a less outspoken career diplomat in the Latin America post. Powell is also well known in Washington circles to be seeking an accommodation strategy with Castro, a concept disdainful to many conservatives.

State Department spokesman Zimmerman dismissed reports of friction between Reich and Powell.

''Ambassador Reich's performance as assistant secretary has been exemplary. He is a consummate diplomat and has the complete confidence of the president, of Secretary Powell and the department's senior leadership,'' Zimmerman told the Miami newspaper.

Leftists were quick to voice their opposition to the anti-communist champion of Cuban exiles. Said a spokesman for Dodd: ''Mr. Reich is still the wrong man for the job, and Sen. Dodd continues to oppose his appointment. We would hope the president would select a nominee with bipartisan support, which clearly Mr. Reich doesn't have.''

''The biggest problem is he's an incredibly divisive figure, and you simply are not going to be able to get a bipartisan policy to Latin America with Otto Reich as assistant secretary,'' William Goodfellow, executive director of Center for International Policy, a liberal research institute in Washington, told the Herald.

Among liberals the word "divisive" means conservative, anti-communist and anti-terrorist. "Bipartisan" foreign policy is sought only when Republicans win elections.

No replacement was named immediately, but sources told the Herald that Reich's principal deputy, J. Curtis Struble, a career Foreign Service officer, would fill the job in the interim.

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The Max Gomez/Felix Rodriguez Doctrine (One Commie, One Bullet) would give Latin America an opportunity for prosperity, freedom and hope.

[Frank_2001]

Happy New Year, Victoria! From what I've read, Saddam has had a history of obtaining nuclear technology from Brazil...we will definitely have to keep a close watch on Latin America...